Название: Knots and Physics, 3rd edition Автор: Louis H Kauffman Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Год: 2001 Формат: PDF Размер: 20 Мб Язык: английский / English
This invaluable book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalised amplitudes for a quasi-physical process. The demands of knot theory, coupled with a quantum-statistical framework, create a context that naturally and powerfully includes an extraordinary range of interrelated topics in topology and mathematical physics. The author takes a primarily combinatorial stance toward knot theory and its relations with these subjects. This stance has the advantage of providing direct access to the algebra and to the combinatorial topology, as well as physical ideas.
The book is divided into two parts: Part I is a systematic course on knots and physics starting from the ground up, and Part II is a set of lectures on various topics related to Part I. Part II includes topics such as frictional properties of knots, relations with combinatorics, and knots in dynamical systems.In this third edition, a paper by the author entitled "Knot Theory and Functional Integration" has been added. This paper shows how the Kontsevich integral approach to the Vassiliev invariants is directly related to the perturbative expansion of Witten's functional integral. While the book supplies the background, this paper can be read independently as an introduction to quantum field theory and knot invariants and their relation to quantum gravity. As in the second edition, there is a selection of papers by the author at the end of the book. Numerous clarifying remarks have been added to the text.
Уважаемый посетитель, Вы зашли на сайт как незарегистрированный пользователь.
С этой публикацией часто скачивают:
Topology and physics Название: Topology and physics Автор: Edited by Chen Ning Yang, Mo-Lin Ge, Yang-Hui He Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Год: 2019 Формат:...
Understanding Quantum Physics. A User’s Manual Название: Understanding Quantum Physics. A User’s Manual Автор: Michael A. Morrison Издательство: Prentice-Hall Inc. Год: 1990 Формат: pdf Страниц:...
Introduction To Quantum Field Theory Название: Introduction To Quantum Field Theory Автор: Paul Roman Издательство: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Год: 1969 Формат: PDF Страниц: 656 Размер:...
Nuclear And Particle Physics Название: Nuclear And Particle Physics Автор: W. E. Burcham, Melvyn Jobes Издательство: Longman Scientific & Technical Год: 1995 Формат: PDF...
The Knot Book Название: The Knot Book Автор: Colin Adams Издательство: American Mathematical Society Год: 2004 Формат: PDF Размер: 58 Мб Язык: английский /...
Навигация
Вход на сайт
Реклама
Knots and Physics, 3rd edition 
